The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 35
At last he found a large piece of the black-rock, and broke it until he got a knife.
Who acts: Shée · What happens: find, break, get · To what, where: large piece, last, piece, knife
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shée), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rock | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 black | punct |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 broke | cc |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 broke | obj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 got | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broke | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 knife | det |
| 21 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Shée | a large piece of the black rock | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent piece=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | break | past | Shée not said here | piece | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Shée | a knife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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